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Discover your gift, develop your gift and then give it away every day.

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Don Meyer
Age: 69 †
Born: 1944
Born: December 16
Died: 2014
Died: May 18
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Nebraska
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Every coach should be recording games to watch...use your VCR.
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You aren't going to win championships unless you make layups and free throws.
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We had 10 turnovers tonight. Each one gets worse as you go. It is like prior arrests: the 10th one may not have been that bad, but when you have had nine prior ones, it looks pretty bad.
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Good shooters take the shots best shooters take most of the shots.
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You have to learn to play with what you've got.
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We have to get a lot tougher. If you get involved in a street fight, you can't lay down in the street and act like you're dead because they will kill you for sure. You might as well get up and fight.
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To be a team, you must be a family.
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Make the practices like games and the games like practices.
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Defense involves three things: courage, energy, intelligence.
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There is nothing more important than rebounding... don't just give it lip service.
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Let your players know that you love them.
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Positioning, anticipation and technique create quickness. Therefore, you can always get quicker
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It doesn't matter where you coach, it matters why you coach.
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Winning a postseason game is like winning five regular season games. There is just no feeling like it. Everything is magnified. Every free throw, turnover, shot and play.
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If you want to thank me, go do something for somebody else
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Coaching is the vehical we use to reach/ help people.
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You never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach
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Habits are critical for players. They cannot think and play well at the same time.
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When I go in for heart surgery, I want a full-time surgeon. I don't want some guy who just does it part-time between rounds of golf. You want a guy who is doing it all the time and is always reading and learning about the most recent techniques.
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The only thing success should do is make you more humble.
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